Off-Campus Events & Exhibitions Featuring MICA Community in November

MICA students, faculty, staff and alumni are keeping busy with events and exhibitions across the region, nation and world

Posted 11.01.12 by MICA COMMUNICATIONS

Members of the MICA community have work showcased in exhibitions throughout the United States and the world in November 2012. Here are some of the highlights (check back frequently as this will be continuously updated):

Portraiture Now: Drawing on the EdgeOn view November 16 through August 18, National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NWMICA CONNECTION: Mequitta Ahuja, Stewart McMillan Artist-in-ResidenceFour of the five paintings Mequitta Ahuja has in the show were made during her residency at MICA during the 2011-12 school year.

Strokes of GeniusOn view November 2 through November 24, Maryland Federation of Art, 18 State Circle, AnnapolisReception: November 11, 3-6 p.m.MICA CONNECTION: Shana Goetsch '11 '12 (MA/MFA Community Arts) will exhibit work and faculty member Mark Karnes will act as juror

Todd Knopke, Aaron McIntosh & Megan SullivanOn view November 12 through December 21, Flippo Gallery, Randolph Macon College MICA CONNECTION: Faculty member Aaron McIntosh This curated exhibition features three contemporary artists whose practices call upon textiles to create image-based work. I will be showing a collection of new works, loosely titled "fragments," which includes works of photography documenting my familiar homeplace that accompany quilting diagrams, a series of pieced samplers and unfinished quilt tops.

3 TributariesOn viewthrough November 3 at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Route 28, Blue Mountain Lake, NY Closing Reception: November 3MICA CONNECTION: Shana Goetsch '11 '12 (MA/MFA Community Arts)Additionally, Goetsch will hold a free printmaking workshop on October 13, 12-3 p.m. in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness month. This process is the same one used for the series, 3 Tributaries. "One of the most important resources for people experiencing domestic violence is a safe space, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Explore your own thoughts and experiences with ‘safe spaces' in the form of a collograph printmaking workshop. This hands-on workshop will detail creating a printmaking plate as well as a simple hand printing process that can be easily duplicated at home."

Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common GoodOn view through November 25, 13th International Venice Architecture BiennaleMICA CONNECTION: Graham Coreil-Allen '10 (Mount Royal)Situated within disparate zones of overlap, contradiction, ambiguity and interstice, the ongoing New Public Sites project consists of playful walking tours, radical maps and poetic typology that investigate the ways in which invisible sites and overlooked features exist within our everyday environment. The New Public Sites walking tours will be included in Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale. Organized by commissioner and curator Cathy Lang Ho of the Institute for Urban Design, with Ned Cramer and David van der Leer, the exhibition features an array of direct action strategies for improving the urban public realm, represented through a system of interactive hanging banners and pedestrian installations.